The high level of student failure, accompanied by an increased drop-out rate, is
problematic in higher education. It is especially a concern in programmes with the
subjects of Mathematics, Accounting and Science. Over ...

The interconnectedness of the constructs ‘whole brain® thinking’ and ‘multiple
intelligence’ forms the epicentre of this article. We depart from the premise that when
whole brain® thinking is activated multiple intelligence ...

Two historians, GD Scholtz and H Giliomee, have written extensively about liberal
political thought among Afrikaners during the period 1775-1975. Their interpretations
of the influence of liberalism on Afrikaner political ...

Violent or other attacks on nationals from other African states are a reality we have come
to expect time-after-time in post-apartheid South Africa. We are once confronted with
the ugly reality of barbaric and cruel acts ...

Farms in South Africa have to compete in a very hostile agricultural economic
environment and it has become imperative for farmers to find new ways of generating
additional income. Research undertaken in the Mopani ...

The use and abuse of anachronism is often seen as the quintessence of the writing of history. Historians tend to conceive it as the hardcore of their métier to avoid anachronism. It designates a confusion in order of time, ...

The paper focuses on challenges in the teaching of problem-solving in Grade 10
Mathematics, which may emanate from ignoring the background environment of the
child (Graven & Schafer, 2013:4). It is important to affirm ...

Local government elections are notorious for low voter turnout, but the May 2011
elections in South Africa showed a record 58 percent of the 24 million registered voters.
In South Africa, local government matters and not ...

Since 1994, South Africa witnessed various xenophobic attacks, the two recent ones
leaving over 60 Africans dead in 2008 and 17 in 2015. Xenophobia is an embarrassment
to the new South African Government, which is ...

This article presents a discussion on the importance of business intelligence (BI) and the
role that a specific BI tool, Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, plays in the strategic
decision-making processes in an ...

Water management has been carried out for many centuries wherever there has been a
need to provide water to large numbers of people. Complex social norms have developed around water management and competing users have ...

The Living Lab paradigm creates open and inter-disciplinary environments where
participants can interrogate challenges and co-create solutions. A successful Living Lab
context incorporates a clear focus/vision, strong ...

The article explores the prospects of community radio programming in providing organic
interventions against xenophobia in South Africa. In the context of mounting migrationrelated
complexities globally, the media have ...

This article sets out to interrogate the ideological hegemony of the superstructuring narrative voice in advertisements by studying linguistic, structural devices and encoding that are employed, in order to expose its ...

This article is concerned with the identification of culturally significant architectural
structures and features on the archaeological sites Mapungubwe and K2, two 11th to 13th
Century AD African capitals in the current ...

Social capital is partially predicated on the levels of trust obtaining between institutions
and between members of society. As such it is a vital ingredient in the ‘glue’ which holds
society together and which facilitates ...

The ‘Romijn’ discharge measurement structure was developed in the Netherlands East Indies. By the end of the colonial period in the 1930s, it had become the standard structure in irrigation. The Romijn design is not only ...

Influences on cultural, social, economic and political life of the Bhaca as well as their
Interaction with other cultures from within South Africa and other parts of the world
have led to the erosion of older traditions ...